On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Tiang Cheng <[email protected]> wrote: > “A computer-implemented system is designed to assist a merchant in setting > up an electronic online storefront that is customized to the merchant's > business, without requiring the merchant to program. The system employs a > store builder wizard to guide a merchant through a series of questionnaires > designed to extract information pertaining to the merchant's business. The > system further employs a page generator to create active server pages (ASPs) > that form the customized storefront.” - Automated web site creation using > template driven generation of active server page applications (Patent link) > > Anyone written a application with those requirement specs? Time to pay up > those royalties….(for me, that’ld be 4 or 5 times)
People really need to understand that patent lawsuits are almost *never* about what you think they are. You should not expect that Microsoft, or SalesForce, care about stopping your ability, or any individuals ability, to do their work. It is strictly an asset for the purposes of "negotiation" with other large companies. Patents are assets. You will almost certainly find the result of this action is some sort of settlement, and then you will never ever hear about it again. I can't believe this stuff is even news anymore, to anyone who has been in technology for longer than a week. > Taken from: > > http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2341-microsoft-patent-trolls-salesforce > > It’s really is a sad state of affairs when you write a fantastic app, and > run the risk of getting sued because someone thought of using template > driven generation of automated web site creation. > > Given that I write .net code, it seems incredible that I Microsoft > infringing IP for creating ASP pages. > > Tiang > > p.s. In this case it’s Microsoft sueing someone, in others it’s Microsoft > being sued by others, so I’m not calling them out specifically. It’s just > the whole IP/Patent law thing Agreed that Patent law is "not ideal". But I would expect it's not so trivial to replace or remove, and you don't hear about the good things, so your feelings towards it are almost certainly biased. -- silky http://www.programmingbranch.com/
